American Jewish History

Umansky, Ellen M.
Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present (review)
American Jewish History - Volume 91, Number 1, March 2003, pp. 165-166

The Johns Hopkins University Press

Ellen M. Umansky - Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America from Colonial Times to the Present (review) - American Jewish History 91:1 American Jewish History 91.1 (2003) 165-166 Her Works Praise Her: A History of Jewish Women in America From Colonial Times to the Present. By Hasia R. Diner and Beryl Lieff Benderly. New York: Basic Books, 2002. xvii + 462 pp. This ambitious work is a lengthy and lively social history of Jewish women in America. It begins with an intimate portrait of Rycke Nounes, one of twenty-three Jewish refugees who settled in New Amsterdam in September 1654 over the objections of Governor Peter Stuyvesant. More than four hundred pages and...